

Mobile computing pioneer Jeff Hawkins has had a lifelong fascination with brains. Now he's trying to model the human cerebral cortex--and he’s created a software company based on his ideas. (Link to the full text [1] provided courtesy of Science magazine [2] .)
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[1] http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/314/5796/76?ijkey=etFGJakewjQIU&keytype=ref&siteid=sci
[2] http://www.sciencemag.org/